Jesus Help, Jesus Thank you (Chantilly Sermon)

Do you remember the first time you experienced prayer?

“Prayer is an ongoing, intimate, and conversational relationship with God” – Dallas Willard

Philippians 4:6 NLT – Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.

Philippians 4:6a NLT – Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.

If it matters to you, it matters to God

1 Peter 5:7 NLT – Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you

Deuteronomy 31:8 NLT – Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you; he will neither fail you nor abandon you.”

Psalm 55:22a NLT – Give your burdens to the Lord, and he will take care of you.

John 3:16 NLT – “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Philippians 4:6a NLT – Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need…

When you pray, tell God what you need

James 4:1-3 NLT – What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you? 2 You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. 3 And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.

What would be different in this world if God answered every prayer you prayed last week?

God might not give you what you think you need

2 Corinthians 12:8 NLT – Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away.

2 Corinthians 12:9a NLT – Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.”

Philippians 4:6 NLT – Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.